Following on from Ben Whittakers post, it is great news that the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) have included the WFOT 5 Guiding Principles for Sustainable Occupational Therapy…
The new RCOT learning and development standards have been published, which you can find here. They state that sustainability issues need to be addressed in occupational therapy curricula.
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I have been a long time watcher of this lovely network. I have recently volunteered myself to be a sustainability lead to embed sustainability into our curriculum at a UK university…
The recent huge interest in climate change has created an unprecedented demand for our charity to help people to take action.
We are excited to have more and more nurses and doctors contacting us…
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I’ve joined The Centre For Sustainable Healthcare as their new Occupational Therapy Volunteer and will be updating the resources on the webpages, writing a monthly post on the OT…
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If you have any good examples ofoccupational therapy practice in the following areas then do please get in touch with me at the below email address:
- Equipment re-use or…
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare has published a new page about the current planetary health emergency:https://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/planetary-health-emergency
It includes links to…
Doctors and all health professionals are highly respected. Many of us therefore feel that we should use our position to speak out and make sure that people know about the climate emergency and the…
An article is planned fora forthcoming edition of OTnews exploring examples of sustainable practice in various different settings.
Are you practicing occupational therapy in a sustainable way? Or…
Check out Michelle Perryman on Episode 13 of the Podcast “Occupied” (http://www.brockcook.com/013/) eloquently speak about how Occupational Therapists as a young profession in a medical model world…